"The yeast in these eggy waffles makes for exceptionally deep pockets, perfect for capturing melting butter and syrups."
Almost a forgotten recipe, and remembering my little kids years, I have been craving for apple beignets ? like grandma use to make them?, for months now, but there has never been a "proper"occasion until today. I lost my ? Diet? bet with my wife, but it was worth it?. and all the kids love them...over and over again.
An Smoutebol or oliebol is a traditional Dutch food. Oliebollen (literally oil balls) are traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve and at funfairs. They are also called smoutebollen in Belgium. Sometimes it is referenced in English as Dutch donut. Oliebollen are a variety of donut made by using two spoons to scoop a certain amount of dough and dropping the dough into a deep fryer filled with hot oil. In this way, a sphere-shaped oliebol emerges. The dough is made from flour, eggs, yeast, some salt, milk, baking powder and optionally some sultanas or currants or raisins and sometimes apple pieces and zest or succade. The dough needs time to rise for at least an hour. Oliebollen are usually served with powdered sugar.
When mom served Bouchee's a la Reine it was fiesta, this was one of my greatest favorites
A sort of elongated meatball, the Fricadelle is a Belgian/German specialty made with ground meat and a variety of complementary ingredients and seasonings. It may be deep-fried or slow-cooked in a stew. Beer is sometimes featured in the recipe. Our recipe borrows its inspiration from the classic "Beef Wellington". The ground, seasoned meat is wrapped in puff pastry, baked in the oven and served hot accompanied by a beer-based venison sauce.
The original recipe was from Holland, today this great tasting Apple Pie is worldwide famous. Believe me it was not Marie Calender who invented this recipe.
There are many delicious specialities that have been cooked for generations by Flemish families. Recipes have been adapted and modernised over the years but by and large, the custom of cooking traditional recipes handed down by generations, has remained at the heart of their original and hearty food culture. Many of the favourites, such as rice pudding with saffron, date back to medieval times when Flemish soldiers brought back the recipe after going to war in Turkey. Others derive from seasonal local produce like endives and asparagus which can be found in abundance during different times of the year. Most Flemish favourite recipes are easy to prepare, use simple ingredients and a desire to indulge in some of the most mouth watering cuisine in the world?
I learned this traditional home dish from my mom, she use to make this dish so good, I gain a few extra pounds after dinner but it was worth it.
Original Belgian Home Style recipe, easy to make, easier to eat.
A Belgian legend claims that the term " French " was introduced when British or American soldiers arrived in Belgium during World War I, and consequently tasted Belgian fries. They supposedly called them " French ", as it was the official language of the Belgian Army at that time. But the term "French fried potatoes" had been in use in America long before the Great War. Whether or not Belgians invented them, "frites" became the national snack and a substantial part of both national dishes making the Belgians their largest per capital consumers in Europe, and their "symbolic" creators.